Losing Our Religion

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. Our world is so black and white. Win or lose, but when we leave binary and begin living in the tension, we grow more, love more, and embrace each other more. Can we do this? How do our ideas get better? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE: #1274. Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab. He is also the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send u

Lily VonTrapp is an event coordinator, model, and burlesque performer. When she's not gracing the stage (or camera) with her performances, you can find her working a muggle job in the sciences. We talk about faith, growing out of religion, and universal life altering woo. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Science Says That People Who Curse a Lot Have Better Vocabularies Than Those Who Don't Is 25 the new cut-off point for adulthood? DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted

Fellow Loser @alycioso writes in: Does it get better? How do you handle rescinded support from the people who are supposed to be your biggest support? Is it worth having conversations with them that only cause more strife? Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list. This podcast is made poss

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. This Episode: Life has lots of transitions. As we move through this journey, it’s not easy to embrace new things and new people, but it’s the embrace of newness despite the fear that brings us massive growth. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: EPISODE 072: Norse, Pentecostal, Heathenry, Paganism, Thor and My Stones?: Asatru Gothi: Alf Herigstad EPISODE 073: Rune Draws & The Heathen Way: Asatru Gothi: Alf Herigstad Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast

Lilith is the Co-Head of the Satanic Temple Seattle, a Harvard and Stanford graduate, and an author. She joins me again to answer some listener questions about her version of Satanism, and the Satanic Temple. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: Contact Lilith Starr The Satanic Temple Narcotics Anonymous BOOKS FROM THIS EPISODE: The Happy Satanist by Lilith Star Paradise Lost by John Milton The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso by Dante Alighieri DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat

Former show guest Laird Young sent in a fantastic article by Shannon Ashley regarding how to embrace sex positivity. We talk about it. How to embrace sex positivity. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: It Takes Time To Become Sex Positive by Shannon Ashley SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Embracing Your Sexuality: Zac Gandara: Shannon Ashley "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the C

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. The Quebec government is taking a moderate approach to secularism that does not violate freedom of religion, Premier Francois Legault said Sunday as he defended his government’s controversial bill to ban the wearing of religious symbols for some public sector employees. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Ban on wearing religious symbols is 'moderate', says Quebec premier... Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTune

Lilith Starr is the Co-Head of the Satanic Temple Seattle, a Harvard and Stanford graduate, and an author. Due to prescribed pain medications, she developed an addiction to opioids and shares how Satanism helped her become empowered to beat the addiction. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE: Contact Lilith Starr The Satanic Temple Narcotics Anonymous BOOKS FROM THIS EPISODE: The Happy Satanist by Lilith Star Paradise Lost by John Milton The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso by Dante Alighieri DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara. Music F

Misha writes in and asks: “As a person who still believes in God but not Church. How do you separate yourself from going back to a place that’s toxic because you are hurting?” BOOK MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer THIS EPISODE'S SHOW NOTES: How to Handle Toxic Community: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture So

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. What is life wasn’t so black and white? What if by our biases we are limiting our life experience? What if we could open ourselves up to seeing things differently? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Truman by David McCullough EPISODE SHOW NOTES: THINKING THURSDAY: Binary, Good, Bad, Or Whatever: Zac Gandara: David Gaub McCullough Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shoppin

Church culture is abusive. Often it’s not intentionally abusive but generationally abusive. Alex sits down with us again to talk about his deconstruction, and we engage our new reconstruction. EPISODE SHOW NOTES: EPISODE 180: Burn it Down and Reconstruct it Again: Alex Spivey DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

I’ve lost the self-care rhythms that I know I need to heal myself, hear myself, trust myself, be myself, and grow. How do I pick those up again? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Inward by Yung Pueblo EPISODE SHOW NOTES: MONDAY MELTDOWN: Listen to Your Body: Zac Gandara "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Fo

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together: Have you ever heard of the Messiah Complex? At what spectrum of it are you? Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communic

Alex was a homeschooled Christian kid who lived with the knowledge that he might be gay. He shares with us his coming out story as well as the struggles he's had with guilt and shame of who he is. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: SALTWATER BAPTISM: Gay and in Love at an Evangelical College DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

If we lose the expectations that create our entitlement, will it ensure our freedom and happiness? Where do we get our sense of entitlement and how do we get rid of it? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: @sgrstk on Instagram: Change how you act and take the power back. “Change how you act and take the power back. (Or, I don't know, maybe at least start closing the bathroom door when you're fucking losing it at work.)” Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Re

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. It's easy to blame someone else, it's hard to look in the mirror. We may actually be causing the tension we are experiencing between ourselves and our family, friends, and others, or at least a part of it. How do we let go of the pride that causes to turn everything into a fight? BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Letting Go by David R Hawkins, PH.D., M.D. Inner by Yung Pueblo Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review

Madrona is an eclectic, Heathen, self-journeying woman who is continually looking for truth which is based in love. She has been Catholic, Mormon, Pagan, and more. She’s also a doula and death doula helping people through transitions. CONTACT MADRONA: @MADRONARAIN DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.

We have a fellow Loser, “Jenny.” Shares her meltdown about the constant pressure from her family. Can we keep a relationship with these people? How can I grow not to be triggered? Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together. ON TODAY'S EPISODE: Maybe we grew up in environments that made us addicted to chaos? Our nervous system may have developed an addiction to drama or trauma. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: @the.holistic.psychologist Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patr

Madrona was cast onto the Norwegian reality show Alt For Norge where she found herself at home with her native people. She shares her experience with us. DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is made possible by the producers of the CounterCulture Society and created and hosted by @ZacGandara.